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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal with it. So the woman is not friendly to you. How does it actually affect your life? Let it go. Do not report her and possibly have this (probably poor) hourly worker lose her job. You don't want that kind of bad karma. Just let her be.

And, realize that many black people deal with this kind of treatment DAILY from whites. I am black, very friendly, professional and polished looking and got followed/ignored (yes, in the SAME trip by different salespeople)  last week at Anthopologie while the white customers got very different service at the same time.

[b]I guess you just aren't used to it as a white person[/b]. [/quote]

I am so freaking sick of hearing that because I am white, I do not "get" discrimination.  Please...enough already you sound ridiclous.  I get stereotyped all the time as a very short, petite, woman who looks like she is 16 years-old.  I get laughed at when I order a drink, I have had the cops threatened to be called when I used my ID at a liquor store, I have people try to butt in front me in lines at places thinking I am a child and will not say anything, and the list goes on.

Not to mention I am a woman in a finance field that moved to the top quickly so I get looks and rude comments from men I work with about my ability a good amount.

I do not go through life throwing this in people's faces these negative experiences, nor do I act like I am a victim.  I DO get what it is like so quit your bullshit already.[/quote]

Not the pp, but your comparisons are laughable. Are you really trying to make this argument? Wow..... SMDH.

You absolutely, 100% DO NOT know what it's like to be discriminated against, based on being black. To claim otherwise is foolish. [/quote]

The comparison is based on appearance. PP, gets treated differently because of her appearance (short and looks like a 16 year old kid) , like you get treated differently because of your appearance (being black). So yeah, there are struggles for other people not just blacks.

Sucks to get treated like shit regularly on the phone by customer service reps, no matter how nice you are because you sound 16 years old. 
Store owners call the cops on your ass, because they think you have a fake card.
When this happens to you, PP, you say to yourself it's because I'm black, while the other person says it's because I look and sound like a kid. It's all discrimination. [/quote]

Not PP but you can't compare looking like you are 16 to being Black or any other race. No one will spit in your food because you look 16 or  clutch a purse and cross the street when they see you. There is no assumption that you speak broken english or are poor simply because you look young for your age. [/quote]

The comparison is how people treat you and respond to you based on what you look like or what their assumptions are. [/quote]

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